Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINThe first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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